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Vocabulary Hunt with Numbers
Introduce or review vocabulary using Numbers! Add media placeholders for each vocabulary word and have students "hunt" for items that represent the vocabulary word in its context. This can be used at…
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The Mac at Forty!
If you are as seasoned as I am, you were using the Mac from its very beginning. Or maybe you adopted this classroom magic some years later. The Mac turns forty January 24, 2024. Here are a few of ou…
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Apple’s Web site features Martin Luther King Jr. ebook
Free download of The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. featured on Apple’s Website today - January 15, 2024.
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Challenge: Commemorate and amplify history’s underrepresented stories
CommemoratingHeritage months broadens the scope of student historical knowledge, adds to the picture of our past and provides an understanding of the richness and historical influences of our diverse…
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One Best Thing - New Curriculum = New Opportunities for Creativity and Collaboration
Students learn best when meaningful integration is implemented across the curriculum. I have found that teachers in many primary classrooms are unaware of how technology can aid in subject integratio…
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Using Freeform to ACTIVATE our destiny.
Ninth grade students are beginning a unit on American Westward Expansion. Prior to beginning the unit, students analyze an image to "activate" their brains for the upcoming content to be learned. S…
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Aotearoa New Zealand Histories-Shine a Spotlight on Peace Pins
Our Year 7 and 8 ākonga have been learning about Aotearoa New Zealand Histories through picture books. The book we focused on recently was Remember that November which incorporates two different hist…
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Art Restoration
When studying history we see artifacts in their current state, however I want students to visualize what the original looked like. We are working on a unit on Egypt, and we were learning about Nefert…
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Be a Part of Your Storytelling - Keynote Live Video
Last year, I got to be a part of helping our 8th grade Reading department use Keynote to show learning. These teachers had students write summaries and predictions about events and characters from in…
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Diving Deep with APUSH: A Creative Exploration Through Apple Freeform
Hey Folks, I'm pumped to share an innovative project idea that's going to jazz up our AP US History (APUSH) adventure. It's all about harnessing the cool features of Apple Freeform to dig deeper into…
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Wall of Fame or Wall of Shame Persuasive Project (Early European Explorers)
Students should research the history and events involving early European exploration of the New World. Once the research or teaching unit is complete, the students can choose one of the explorers the…
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Igniting Creativity and Learning with an Interactive Workbook on Diverse Heroes
Hey all! I'm thrilled to introduce you to a fantastic teaching tool that can redefine engagement and learning in your classroom. It's an interactive workbook, thoughtfully designed using Pages, that …
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Word Art - Yes AND…
Check out the some of the creative Word Art lessons posted by teachers using the #EveryoneCanCreate tag in our Apple Education Community: You Can Animate Two Homophones, Too! - @VictoriaLS Capture Wo…
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Visual Literacy - Looking Closer with Clips
One technique history learners use when analyzing primary sources is to reveal sections of an image before viewing the whole.Clips can augment that technique by focusing the learner on specifics in a…
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Civic Literacy and Video Creation!
For a wonderful integration of student created video and government or civics class content consider the annual C-SPAN StudentCam documentary contest “C-SPAN's annual national video documentary compe…
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Educators, we have a story to tell…one for the “history books”
The Library of Congress American Folk Life Centerand StoryCorpshave a call out to participate inthe Covid 19 American History project.One aspect of that project encourages the public (13 yrs +) to sh…
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Lasting Learning with Research & Apple Tools - Bringing Stories into the Light
I found Jew Yeung’sstory the summer I was researching at the National Archives in Washington D.C. with an Apple Distinguished Educator colleague, Mia Morrison. We had the opportunity to be involved i…
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Earth Day Reflections with a History Twist
Schools held some wonderful Earth Day (week and month) activities throughout April. And there are some super Earth Day posts with activities in our Community as well: Early Learners Celebrate Earth…
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Susquenita's Book of Presidents
Susquenita's Book of Presidents was an excellent project that promoted a deep understanding of the executive branch among high school students. This project required 11th graders to research the earl…
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What's Worth Fighting For? A Short Clips Inquiry Provocation
In Term 2 I will be supporting my year 4-5 ESOL ākonga with their Inquiry and Literacy Learning. I decided to use an over arching big question: 'What's Worth Fighting For?' Often our children can no…
